It’s a good day to be 5’ 7″.
A brief Googling suggests Rishi Sunak, Emmanuel Macron, Olof Scholz, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky are all 5’7, it’s an unprecedented consolidation of European power in the hands of short kings
A brief Googling suggests Rishi Sunak, Emmanuel Macron, Olof Scholz, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky are all 5’7, it’s an unprecedented consolidation of European power in the hands of short kings
I often turn to the internet to answer her questions. Two reasons… First, I’m training her to recognize that there’s a wealth of knowledge available online. And second, someone typically has written a better answer than I can muster. “If […]
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“ALL the eels in Europe and America are born in the Sargasso Sea (in the Bermuda Triangle! Ominous? Yes).” | learn more
In the summer of 2020 economist Russell Napier predicted the coming inflation. “My structural argument is that the power to control the creation of money has moved from central banks to governments. By issuing state guarantees on bank credit during […]
“When the Black Death struck Europe in 1348, the bacterial infection killed large swaths of people across the continent, driving the strongest pulse of natural selection yet measured in humans, the new study found.” | learn more
“Around 1900, about 4.5 per cent of the land area of the world burned every year. Over the last century, this declined to about 3.2 per cent In the last two decades, satellites show even further decline: in 2021 just […]
“Human hair is 50 times softer than steel, yet it can chip away a razor’s edge, a new study shows.” | learn more
I overheard this on a playground and had to dig in. | learn more
A short video of their tech in action. | learn more